Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

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>> Of the two bugs you've reported, one only exists in a deprecated and soon to 
>> be removed module. I will try to fix the other one as soon as you can provide 
>> me with enough data that I can see exactly what is getting messed up where.
>
>Sorry, the way to access SCSI generic via /dev/hd* is deprecated. If ide-scsi
>ir removed, then a clean and orthogonal way of accessing SCSI in a generic
>way is removed from Linux. If Linux does nto care about orthogonality of 
>interfaces, this is a problem of the people who are responbile for the related
>interfaces.
>

So what you want is to be able to use write() on a <sg-compatible> device 
rather than doing SG_IO ioctl() on <any> device?


Jan Engelhardt
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